Eddie Murphy

Jada Pinkett Smith

James Coburn

Larry Miller

Dave Chappelle

John Ales

Patricia Wilson

Jamal Mixon

Nichole McAuley

Hamilton von Watts

Chao Li Chi

Tony Carlin

Quinn Duffy

Montell Jordan

Doug Williams

David Ramsey

Chaz Lamar Shepherd

Lisa Halpern

Mark McPherson

John Prosky

Michael Rothhaar

Sara Ballantine

Greg Natale

Roy Werner

Retha Jones

Steve Monroe

Joe Greco

Nick Kokotakis

Stanley D. Petter III

Mohamed Mohsen

Michael D. Starks

Julianne Christie

Christie Blanchard-Power

Alexia Robinson

Lisa Boyle

Athena Massey

Judith Woodbury

Arthur Tovey

Ned Luke

Barry W. Blaustein

Mark Lipsky

Karen Kehela Sherwood

Julio Macat

Steve Oedekerk

Jerry Lewis

David Sheffield

Don Zimmerman

Tom Shadyac

Tina Fortenberry

Troy Gilbert

Marian Green

Mickey Gilbert

Jack Carpenter

Joe Finnegan

Peter Horak

Anthony G. Schmidt

David E. Diano

Jimmy Lewis Jr.

Lance Gilbert

Bennie Moore

Sally Thornton

Robert Stadd

Tim Gilbert

Stanton Barrett

Eddie Smith

Chuck 'Chaz' Hosack

Carlton Holder

Billy Clevenger

Eugene Collier

Jonathan Fuh

Maureen Stanton-Leveque

Ronald Kline

José Antonio García

Bruce McBroom

Michael Hilkene

Gary Dagg

Yvonne Garnier-Hackl

Glen Richard

Laurie Dodsworth

Dennis DeWaay

Steve Maslow

Bob Hartman

Dawn Snyder

Simon Coke

James F. Claytor Sr.

Paul Murphey

Don Nygren

David Burnett

Lou Sumien Jr.

Arlene Kehela

Mike Moyer

Richard Hartley

Mike Connors

Jeff Erdmann

Gretchen van Zeebroeck

John Maskovich

Jeff Carson

J.J. George

Jim Passon

John T. Cucci

Dan O'Connell

Gregg Landaker

Ed Callahan

Leslie Gaulin

Sandy Brundage

Deborah Simmrin

Bruce J. Gfeller

Kathryn Weygand

Rick Young

Marisol Jiménez

James Ashwill

John O. Wilde

Barbara Harris

Don Thompson

Jeff Rosen

Lane Leavitt

Dean Zimmerman

David A. Armstrong

Francine Morris

Bill Richmond

Rebecca Strickland

Geri B. Oppenheim

Brian Grazer

Daryl Kass

Daniel M. Stillman

Aleta Chappelle

Kathryn Peters

Ha Nguyen

David B. Householter

William A. Elliott

Beth Miller

David Newman

Rick Baker

Russell Simmons

James D. Brubaker

The Nutty Professor Collection

Fantasy

Comedy

Romance

Science Fiction

The Nutty Professor

Universal Pictures

Imagine Entertainment

Eddie Murphy Productions

United States of America

English

Filipe Manuel Neto

**A comedic film that was successful, and which is based on the talented efforts of Eddie Murphy.**

This is one of the comedies that helped establish Eddie Murphy's name as a comic actor, and I wouldn't be exaggerating if I said that it was one of the most memorable comedies that came out in the 90s: almost everyone has seen this film, regardless of whether or not they liked him. The story is quite simple and follows the journey of a clumsy university chemistry professor who, suffering from morbid obesity, decides to invent a serum that allows him, instantly, to assume the physical elegance he always dreamed of having... but when he falls in love with a slender woman, decides to test it on himself and discovers a disturbing side effect: a split personality that threatens to banish the real one and take on a life of its own.

I called him a double personality, but it would be more accurate to call him an “alter ego”, because Buddy Love – that's his name – is actually the reflection of all the repressed desires that Professor Sherman had and that he never fulfilled: a handsome, seductive, bold and flirtatious man, spontaneous and extroverted to the point of not having any kind of shame and having deeply unpleasant attitudes towards other people. Freudian? It's really something that only a psychoanalyst could understand, but which the film plays with in a deeply effective way.

But not everything is good in this film. The dialogues are quite weak, and the jokes were made with such a low and dirty style of humor that a person like me can hardly laugh. There are several moments in which this is observed more clearly, but all the scenes where the Klump family appears deserve negative attention. It's a part of the film that I, honestly, would have cut and deleted, and that I would never let a son or daughter see before we had a serious conversation about it.

Technically, the film is not a show in any way, except for all the makeup and costume work, developed around Eddie Murphy and the various characters he played in the film. It is a truly remarkable work, in which Murphy ages, rejuvenates, gains weight and loses weight as necessary, and always with a lot of verisimilitude and authenticity. And what about the work of the protagonist himself? I think it's enough to say that he deserves all the praise and accolades he received for the film. Despite the weaknesses and all the defects that I have pointed out, the commitment, dedication, professionalism and talent of an actor who, in a single film, plays eight or nine different characters is undeniable! If there's anything that makes this movie work, it's Eddie Murphy. Jada Pinkett Smith (still single at the time, as far as I know) did a decent job as a beauty who serves as Murphy's love interest, and does a reasonable job with her colleague, without being able to keep up with him for a single minute. James Coburn and Dave Chappelle make some positive notes, but that's all there is to it.

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